An Anti-racist Education for Middle Schoolers

K-12 STUDENTS IN large public school districts across the country spent much of the fall semester at home, a less-than-ideal result of the COVID-19 pandemic. But Zoom learning was hardly the only significant change to the education system. Some school districts are embracing trendy but dubious ideas about how to fight racism in the classroom.

Bringing Politics Into the Classroom

Why it’s impossible—and irresponsible— for teachers in minority communities to ignore the subject

Landing a Lifeline

For those whose livelihood depends on the ocean, a covid-spurred interruption in the seafood market might speed progress toward a more sustainable future—for them and for fish.

Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Build Here

Wildfires are close to torching the insurance industry in California

Alone, Ignored, And the Virus at The Door

Nursing homes responded to the pandemic by blame-shifting, but an investigation into a troubled chain suggests the industry could have done more to stop outbreaks

A Desk of Their Own To Ease Remote Learning For Kids In Need

As remote schooling surged during the pandemic, parents across the country realized that many kids didn’t have desks at home.

Cop Out

How Black Oaklanders finally expelled the school police

THE PRICE OF PURPLE

Archaeologists have found new evidence of a robust dye industry that endured on the Mediterranean coast for millennia

IN THE REIGN OF THE SUN KINGS

Old Kingdom pharaohs faced a reckoning that reshaped Egypt’s balance of power

WEAVING FOR THEIR ANCESTORS

For 1,000 years, the Paracas people of Peru expressed their vivid conception of life and death through textiles

The Great Wall of Mongolia

A nomadic medieval dynasty constructed a 450-mile barrier to help manage their sprawling empire

CANADA'S FORGOTTEN CAPITAL

Beneath the streets of Old Montreal, the rubble of a short-lived Parliament building offers a glimpse into a young country’s growing pains

A Chicago Press for the People

On September 24, 2009, sixteen-year-old student Derrion Albert was beaten to death outside of Christian Fenger Academy High School, on the South Side of Chicago, in broad daylight. Though there were many witnesses, one of whom captured the attack on cell-phone video, no one stepped in to help. The footage of the murder went viral, highlighting the severity of the city’s youth violence epidemic, as Albert was the third teenager killed in Chicago that month.

Becoming the Notorious RBG

Ginsburg found pop superstardom late in life—and that may ensure that her dissents echo into the future

A Wealth of Opportunity But For Whom?

Over seven decades, Norfolk leveraged federal tax breaks to remake itself. Now the Virginia city is using them to demolish its historically Black neighborhoods

The New Southern Strategy

How Black mayors in the South are leveraging both the power of office and the power of the street to achieve overdue changes

Claudia Rankine's Quest for Racial Dialogue

Is her focus on the personal out of step with the racial politics of our moment?

Abolish Qualified Immunity

This court-invented doctrine shields bad cops from civil liability.

Can An Unlove Child Learn to Love?

Thirty years ago, the world discovered tens of thousands of children warehoused in Romanian orphanages, deprived of human contact and affection. They’re adults now.

True West

The legendary Texas Ranger have a dark history of brutality and impunity. Now, they're facing a reckoning a century in the making.

WALKING INTO NEW WORLDS

Native traditions and novel discoveries tell the migration story of the ancestors of the Navajo and Apache

Wealth of a Medieval Power Broker

In England’s far northeast, a commanding bishop built a chapel rivaling the grandest in Europe

SOUTH AFRICA'S FATEFUL SHIPWRECK

A seventeenth-century vessel foundered off the coast and transformed a nation’s history

SIBERIAN ISLAND ENIGMA

It’s hard to imagine that a tiny tree ring could help solve one of the medieval world’s most puzzling mysteries.

RESISTING ROME

How a Celtic tribe fought to defend their Iberian homeland against the emperor’s legions

MOUSE IN THE HOUSE

Mice may have begun infesting European homes at least 2,500 years earlier than previously known.

INSIDE THE ROCK'S SURPRISING HISTORY

Before it was an infamous prison, Fort Alcatraz played a key role defending the West Coast

CLOSING IN ON A PHARAOH'S TOMB

Archaeologists excavating in the Egyptian royal necropolis of Deir el-Bahari, on the west bank of the Nile, believe they have found the long-sought location of the tomb of the early 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Thutmose II (r. ca. 1492–1479 b.c.).

The Relentless Erin Brockovich

She was an early crusader for environmental justice. Today, she’s sounding the alarm louder than ever.

What Is MasterClass Actually Selling?

The Ads are everywhere: You can learn to serve like Serena Williams, write like Margaret Atwood, act like Natalie Portman. But what MasterClass really delivers is something altoguether different.